Textures of time : writing history in South India, 1600-1800 / Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman, Sanjay Subrahmanyam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Narayana Rao, Velcheru, 1932-

Contributor:

Shulman, David Dean, 1949-

Subrahmanyam, Sanjay.

Series:

Cultural studies (New York, N.Y.)

Cultural studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography.

India, South--History.

India, South.

South India.

History.

India, South--Historiography.

Historiography--India, South.

Physical Description:

xii, 296 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Other Press, [2003]

Contents:

1 Introduction: A Palette of Histories 1

1. Listening for History 1

2. Matters of Fact 11

3. Letters Traced on Paper 19

2 On the Battle of Bobbili, January 1757 24

1. Introduction: Tiger Town 24

2. Bobbili-yuddha-katha (1): Bussy's Blunders 26

3. Bobbili-yuddha-katha (2): Intersecting Frames 40

4. Playing with Fate: The Pedda Bobbili Raju Katha 42

5. 'This Tragic Ground': Colonial Perspectives on Bobbili 50

6. Ranga-raya caritramu (1): Prehistory 61

7. Ranga-raya caritramu (2): 'Why should the Greedy Think Nobly?' 65

8. Reviewing Bobbili 73

9. Excursus: The Padmanabha War, 1794 79

3 Of Karanams and Kings 93

1. Remembering and Recording 93

2. The Kakatiya Retrospective 96

3. Kumara Rama and Polika Rama 100

4. Minister and King: The Raya-vacakamu 115

5. The Too-clever Karanam: On the Tanjavuri Andhra Rajula Caritra 129

4 Senji, 1714 140

1. A Bundela among the Tamils 140

2. On Fame: Two Empirical Essays 146

3. History Transformed: The Desingu Raja Katha 156

4. The Hero's Empty Field 165

5. Teyvika Rajan and the Shatter-Zone State 171

6. Conclusion: On Synchronicity 179

5 Tarikh, Caritra, Bakhar 184

1. Senji Revisited 184

2. Jaswant Rai: A Brahmin from Ghazni writes Arcot's History 189

3. Jaswant Rai on Tej Singh 200

4. From Arabic to Persian 209

5. From Pawn to Queen: The Rise of the Bakhar 223

6. Karnataka Rajakkal: Flattening the Loops of Time 239

7. Conclusion: The Sphere of Circulation 249

1. History's Warp and Weft 252

2. Mistaken Identity: Kalhana's Raja-tarangini 254

3. Gangadevi's Pseudo-History 261

4. History from below: Dupati Kaifiyatu 263.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references ([271]-283) and index.

ISBN:

1590510445

OCLC:

50143515